Family Guy vs. The Simpsons

In this post we are going to talk about two famous cartoon snows on FOX named Family Guy and The Simpsons. One of them is pretty intense cartoon with the strong joke and phrases which make you laugh hard and unexpected. You are never know what is going to be next while other one have smart and delicate jokes that entertains you during the episode. Both of those snows you can watch on Fox or any other channel. 

Family guy is younger cartoon show that The Simpsons. In Season 10, Episode 22 called Family Guy Viewer Mail #2 main characters Brian Griffin and Stewie Griffin said that this show is based on The Simpsons…

Griffins are a family that makes different funny things which many people cannot afford to do in real life. Peter Griffin is retarded in funny way head of family. In every episode he involves in humorous story.

Housewife Louise Griffin seems to be the most reasonable character in this show, except their son Stewie and his dog Brian. Inspire of that, sometimes she has weaknesses and complicated and dirty past.  They also have a daughter Meg. As far as viewer can see whole family hates her…

She was unwanted child in this family and they treat her like a weird person. In many episodes her father and mother and almost everybody humiliate her in different ways, but she is strong and  can handle an embarrassment. 

One of the brightest characters is Stewie, who is a baby-genius. In the beginning of the show he had many gadgets and weapons that he developed by himself, but then he became just an ordinary guy who is a genius. Only dog knows about it.

Brian. He is definitely a thinker, writer and dreamer. Many times he tried to get  famous as a writer, but readers didn't like his books. Whole family laughed at him. His personal life is not going well either... 

It is hard to say who is smarter Stewie or Brain, but looks like first one is more intelligent and got theoretical knowledge while Brain is more than average smart and has practical knowledge.

The show Family Guy has really strong jokes and parodies. All those hilarious stories and cutouts- make you laugh hard. You never know what turn is going to be next. 

Their style is dynamic and they just play with human emotion. There are many situation that you can observe in real life. Authors have noticed people's behavior, way they speak, all kinds of accents, some interesting moment in a relationships and show it to you in really funny way. 

The style of this show is pretty simple: situation, joke, back to story line. If you want to understand it, you should notice disconnect between words and actions. That is how Family Guy made. 

The Simpsons. It is probably one of the oldest shows on FOX. It is about family that always gets into interesting stories. This show has more intelligent and has delicate jokes. It is kind of social sitcom, where you can see a parody of the society.  There are many jokes but they are not very obvious as in Family Guy.

Homer Simpson is a head of the family. He is simple: he does stupid things and then deals with consequences. Almost every episode he has an “idea” that makes viewer laugh.  His wife Marge is also housewife, also reasonable, but she had no dark past like Louise Griffin. She is supportive wife and loving mother. 

This family has kinds. The smallest child Meg never grows up since late 80-s. She is a baby with a pacifier… She doesn't walk, doesn't talk, but  does funny faces and uses body language to communicate. 

Lisa is the smartest kid in this family. Parents love her. She is the best student at school. She is the best at everything she does. Lisa loves animals so much. She is vegetarian. Sometimes she works on different  wild life protection projects. Lisa has a  bother who is totally different... 

Bart – is the oldest kid in Simpsons’ family. He doesn't like school and makes joke on everyone, even on his principal. He doesn't care about education because he likes to have fun. He is kind of bad boy from the good perspective.

Simpsons have pets – retarded dog and  normal cat. They don't talk like Brain Griffin in Family Guy. Santa’s little helper (dog) and Snowball (cat) they are just pets. 

The Simpsons show has funny and pretty entertaining jokes. They are not so dynamic and unexpected like in Family Guy, but they have its own style. All jokes in Simpson's are part of main story. There no cutouts in this show. This show is interesting and has its style.  

What show would you like to watch it depends on your expectations. If you like rough and crude humor with the sexual meaning then Family Guy is for you. But if you like delicate smart jokes about society and family relations then you should probably watch The Simpsons. It is up to you! 

  

Act of Valor

Today we decided to discuss an action called Act of Valor. This movie is about well-known special force –  and their way to fight with the terrorists, kidnappers and all kinds of mafia. If you like to watch colorful films with many effects, explosions, ambushes, gunfights - this movie is for you.

Act of Valor - it is an action with drama elements, just to spice things up a bit. At the beginning we see a man who is writing a letter and tell us about such value an honor, ethos etc…  After that we see a SEALs team make training jump, while in the other part of the world in Philippines merciless fanatic made an explosion at school…

Afterwards camera moves back to United States, where viewer meets all members of the platoon. They were gathered with their families on a nice sandy beach, around the campfire… For them, it was one great evening before the next mission. That is first time when narrator (which is also a SEALS chief) tells us a little information about every member of the team, about their past… That is how this movie begins…     



Story line.  CIA  agent was kidnapped in Costa Rica by the heavily gunned suspects that have been hired by the international criminal of USSR origins named Christo.  Special operations forces (SEALs) were sent to recovery an agent and bring her back home. They did the mission, but during the assault one of the members got wounded…

In this operation they have picked a cell phone which was a clue, as it belonged to a criminal that was responsible for the kidnapping. He had further plans to kill many people by using suicide bombers. 

Two members of SEALs were sent to Africa to collect intelligence about terrorist activities, while other group located main criminal on a luxury yacht somewhere at the sea… After an interrogation and few strong words SEALs Senior Miller got information… 

The group of bad guys was preparing explosive vests in Mexico. They also planned to sneak to United States though the tunnel under Mexican-American border and make explosions in the biggest cities.

That was the reason why SEALs came there to Mexico and took all enemies down.  During this operation one ave was wounded badly, but survived. 

This movie was shot in different countries such as USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ukraine.

 As far as we can see there is a real story behind this movie. It is about courage, valor and heroic sacrifices…It’s about United States Armed Forces in common meaning and in this case it is about United States Navy. 

Some scenes remind you such popular game actions like Call of Duty or Battlefield 3. Especially at the end of the movie, where they had last fight with the terrorists, when chief Dave was wounded badly there was a view exactly like in Battlefield 3…

Viewers have different opinions which are available on imdb.com. For example:

 erol-mehmet-a  thinks that is: “Typical American propaganda movie” while  voyeurn3  wrote that this film has “Unrealistic scene”...

Inspire of those strong comments we are recommend you to watch this movie just to get own opinion. Except that if you like military planes, helicopters, boats - this movie is for you.  

  

Season 24:  Homer Goes to Prep School

According to different sites it was aired on January 06,2013. It is regular, boring episode without new ideas…

Homer and suspicious man

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Looks like main theme came from 90-s movies, based on apocalyptical talks. Many of them shows us riots (usually all over United States, across the big cities like Los Angeles or New York) and social chaos. There were some armed gangs - half punks with colored hair and kind of wild humans (sometimes cannibals) that had merciless leaders. 

In this episode Homer met some suspicious people that were preparing to the end of the world (though the end of the facilities and technologies). They thought that society will be gone and people are going to become wild gangs…

Sure thing, that his family had no idea what is going on. While Homer was preparing himself for surviving, his family lived normal life. In some point, he concentrated too much on training movies, which he was watching at work and didn’t make his duties… Whole city lost the power while all electronic devices were damaged by some neutron wave… 

After that Simpsons were sure that the end of the world came in, they moved to the special (let’s call it) ranch that suspicious people build to survive and protect their food and water supply. After a few hours with those people Homer realized that he got a good heart and he wants to share supplies with other survivals… When he came back to Springfield, he saw that no one got hurt and everything is all right…

It was a typical 90-s theme. This episode was mostly about dialogs… All jokes were usual…but still some of them you may like.

So watch it and judge by yourself.

The Simpson Season 23: The Daughter Also Rises





Lisa Simpson with Nick at the restaurant

Before we get started, I would like to say that first episode of animated sitcom The Simpsons were aired on December 17, 1989. Since then according to Wikipedia, Fox broadcasted 515 episodes. There are no doubts that it was a huge success for the creator - Matt Groening.  

The best thing about this show that it keeps been funny. Where do their ideas come from? Maybe they hired talented script writers or maybe fans send them some interesting thoughts… Who knows? The point is, that no matter how do they do it, as far as this show entertaining the audience – it’s a good thing. But those jokes about Christianity they are not appropriate from the moral point of view.  Even more - screenwriter went too far… but not as far as Family Guy writers who recently make unacceptable parodies.

As it was mentioned The Simpsons are very funny sitcom. In this post we are going to talk about an episode named The Daughter Also Rises, which you can find in Season 23. According to recent sites, it released at February 12, 2012 and then become available on Internet... My opinion is very positive. I love this episode which is full of additional jokes, which make it really enjoyable.

The main story is about well-known family. They were about to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day and… hold on a second! An episode begins with St. Valentine’s atmosphere. Bart and Milkhouse are checking out their greeting cards and sure thing, that Bart got many of them while Milkhouse just two- one from Lisa Simpson (Bart’s sister) and other… it was just a bill, but Milkhouse pretended that was a greeting card from doctor… Few seconds later they decided to watch TV…

In this point Fox showed to viewers a parody of the popular TV series on Discovery Channel called Mythbusters. Just to make it funny, scriptwriters mixed some experiments that Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage   made back of the days on Discovery in funny way. They actually guest starred in this episode.

Mythcrackers on Simpson’s TV were checking “classic” myth that cat always land on his feet… To make long story short – they didn’t check it, because they have made a robotic cat with ballistic gel on it to simulate a real cat… and then shot that thing and blew up the Pumpjack and made gas prices higher…  

Anyway, inspired by this show, Bart and Milkhouse decided to become Mythcrackers.  Camera show us Simpson’s dining room, where Homer were preparing to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day.  He even made a bow on chocolate box… because according to social stereotypes in that day men suppose to do everything possible to make women happy. Therefore Homer is really nervous…but his wife Marge decided that celebration supposes to be natural, so his husband is allowed to do whatever he wants.

Homer and Bart went to have fun, while Marge and Lisa found themselves in a restaurant. Romantic atmosphere was everywhere… Lisa met Nick though wall crack… This  guy loves literature and has an excellent language skills as he read many books. The story shows us, that he looks like a gentleman and beehives like that but… Lisa has felt in love with him… Then she went to a grandpa, who told her a romantic story about yang lovers. After that she asked her grandfather to help her with romantic trip, to find a tree that will make their love timeless.  Three was in the middle of the lake… So they go there and...

In the end of the story viewer will find out that that guy that Lisa has felt in love, his is a poser and they are not ready for a serious relationship... Whole episode is full of funny situation and jokes that can make laugh out loud.  I definitelly would recomment it!